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Crowd praises veterans at Bothell ceremony
A big cheer for new Safeway
BY ANDY NYSTROM anystrom@bothell-reporter.com
Longtime downtown Bothell Safeway employee Robert MacKay unleashes a celebratory yell after cutting the grand-opening ribbon with Bothell Mayor Mark Lamb at the city’s new store last Friday. Veteran Jeffery Sanchek also helped cut the ribbon. See page 4 for story. ANDY NYSTROM, Bothell-Kenmore Reporter
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Elections employees are still tallying votes, but nearly all the local races have been decided. Ballots hit the mail Oct. 20, and the first round of votes flashed on general-election followers’ computer screens the evening of Nov. 8. The Northshore School District races for directors No. 2 and 3 generated a slew of letters to the Reporter and comments
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on its Web site. At press time, incumbent Dawn McCravey holds a roughly 53-percent to 47-percent lead over B-Z Davis at Director No. 3 and inches closer to victory with each vote count. “I am pleased so many people in our community have voted to put kids first in this election. I am proud of my team’s effort in this race. We ran an honest race, providing facts about current issues in education, the differences I have made [ more ELECTION page 2]
Everyone knows about the national debt in money terms, said Jake Cabuag, as the crowd looked on last Friday during the new Bothell Safeway’s Veterans Day ceremony and grand opening. “Very few bring up the biggest national debt of all, that of which Americans owe to our veterans. Our debt to these heroes can never be replaced, but our gratitude and respect must last forever,” added the department commander of the state’s American Legion, which features 35,000 veterans. Cabuag said he’s proud to be a part of Bothell Post 127, which includes Jennifer Marshall, now a member of the Armed Forces after returning from duty in Afghanistan two months ago. She served there for a little over a year. “Jennifer, thank you for serving,” he said as the crowd of 200 applauded. The department commander paused, and then noted that the United States is important enough for veterans to endure long separations from their families, miss the birth of their children, freeze in sub-zero weather, lose limbs and, far too often, experience the loss of lives. Quoting from one of his American Legion comrades’ speech to Congress, Cabuag said, stressing each sentence: “It is not the nature of American warriors to complain. Warriors endure. Warriors make due with less. Warriors finish the job, no matter how hard, no matter what is asked.” One of the most powerful speeches came from Jeffery Sanchek, a veteran who’s involved with the Wounded Warriors
From left, Dave Schorn, Dave Cook and Carl Wipperman from Bothell’s American Legion Post 127 salute the colors during last Friday’s Veterans Day ceremony at the new Safeway. ANDY NYSTROM, Bothell-Kenmore Reporter Project. All the nation’s Safeways raised funds for the project last weekend. Sanchek went from serving as a medic and Navy diver in Iraq to returning home with a leg injury and experiencing post-traumatic stress disorder. While stationed in Baghdad, he was speaking with his wife via satellite phone when rockets struck a building behind him that housed 162 men and women who were sleeping at the time. “I realized real quick, that with that first experience of rockets flying overhead, improvised explosive devices, mortar attacks… that something was going to be different over the next few months,” he said. “When I came home, something happened that wasn’t expected — you see, I brought the war home with me,” he added. “When I came home into a place of safety with my family, getting to go watch football games again, and that place where I should have felt absolutely safe and secure
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— I was absolutely miserable.” As his post-traumatic stress disorder worsened, his drinking and anger impacted his family and quality of life. After he was asked to retire from the Navy, he “felt like a failure,” but his wife urged him to look into the Wounded Warriors Project. It’s helped him along the way to finding a better life, he said. Sen. Rosemary McAuliffe and Rep. Derek Stanford, both of Bothell, also shared their thoughts with the crowd at the Veterans Day ceremony. “We need to thank them for the rights that we value and cherish. We don’t speak about them very often, but when they’re threatened on this soil and any other soil, our people stand up and defend them — the right for free speech, the right to assemble, the right to worship as we choose and the right for the freedom of press,” McAuliffe said.
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